Coming out of France’s suburban ghetto, the first French hip-hop artists take the country by storm in 1990. Names lik...

The mainly BAME neighbourhoods of Paris were places mainstream media didn't go and didn't talk about. So the local ra...

Rap took off: no longer a genre on the fringes of acceptability or even on the fringes of what is considered music: i...

The rapper is a social animal. He moves in groups and collectives, like Time Bomb or Beat 2 Boul. They're like famill...

Every generation of rapper in France tackles the diffcult and sometimes violent relationship between the police and u...

Some rappers aren't content to work for somebody else. They intend to decide for themselves on their own terms rather...

In 1996, after a law was passed demanding that 40 percent of the music played on French radio be French, the radio st...

Rap has grown mainstream; and in doing so, has it lost its soul? And which rap has value, which one is the authentic ...

2005. In the aftermath of the biggest riots in France since May 68, the political class has to find the culprit. It's...

French rap may not have achieved the social changes it wanted, but it is now a firm favourite on the airwaves. This i...